Issue Driven Quotes

#1. If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.

Ratan Tata

#2. Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Desiderius Erasmus

#3. Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Boyd K. Packer

#4. You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

Nate Berkus

#5. Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored photo. They put Martha's head on a slimmer woman's body. And Martha was very upset about this. She said, 'Hey, if I wanted my face on another woman's body, I'd stay in prison.'

Jay Leno

#6. In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Jimmy Hoffa

#7. There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

Bill Gates

#8. With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Guru Nanak

#9. There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

Amy Hatvany

#10. Flow is the doorway to the 'more' that most of us seek.

Ned Hallowell

#11. time and attention is just like the check, you do not just issue them to anything or anybody at all

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. Drink won his sword, meet with my hammer. That's more than my demon can object.

George R R Martin

#13. Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

Kim Ji-woon

#14. There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Jesse Jackson

#15. I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

Amy Hatvany

#16. What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

#17. I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'.

Julianna Margulies

#18. Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#19. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Amy Hatvany

#20. Are we talking about sending the FBI or the National Guard to close abortion clinics?" I asked. "We'll see when I get to be president," he answered. Huckabee smiled.

Matt Taibbi

#21. People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Andy Stanley